Sandra Teh meets a consultant and a journalist, both experts in the green buildings industry. Discover the challenges and benefits of eco-friendly construction, and the meaning of the LEED certification.

Made-in-China exports to the US include just about everything under the sun. Soon, Chinese automobiles will be added to the list. But they're not going to be like most cars in America—these cars are going to be environmentally friendly. Susan Tart has the latest in China's efforts to become green.

It looks like an IKEA showroom, but it's not.

It's the 2010 Beijing Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Exhibition, a multi-day event for companies to show off their latest environmentally-friendly products. It's also the most recent in a series of Green events scheduled to take place in China.

On the floor, the two biggest brands in town are Philips and Panasonic, but even local Chinese companies are making a showing. And all of them are jumping on the bandwagon that they see as the next big industry of the 21st century.

In this section, dedicated to light bulbs, the companies push for longer and longer lifetimes, as well as higher and higher prices.

Ancius introduces the Chinese characters for “red”, and “green”.

China's controversial mandatory internet filter to block websites offering violence and pornography is being temporarily blocked.

On the eve of the July 1st deadline for all computers sold in China to have the Green Dam-Youth Escort software the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology suddenly announced it would be delayed.

Deforestation in developing countries is a well publicized occurrence, but what's less well known is that China is planting more trees than the rest of the world combined.

It looks green on the surface, but could this massive project be doing more harm than good?

Andrew Livingstone breaches the Great Green Wall of China.

SHANGHAI PUSHES “GREEN” VEHICLES
CHECK IT OUT
INDIVIDUALLY GREEN
WHO PAYS THE PIPER?
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
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